Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Notice to Airmen
Date:	1/11/2023 3:15:59 PM (updated 1/11/2023 3:16:52 PM)

Looks like the FAA had a crashed system this morning.  It was recently renamed for reasons to "Notice to Air Missions."

My guess is that it went down due to a person of unknown biology being offended and pulling the plug because the label on the monitor was not updated from Airmen to Air Missions to appease the long alphabet + group.

It took 1/2 a day for someone to plug it back up, because they had to locate someone not offended and shaking to replace the label before being allowed to turn the system back on by the Biden/Buttigieg administration.

Glad they spent all that time to get the systems pronouns fixed, otherwise it could have really be a disaster and stopped all air travel while they renamed it - sadly they would not have been able to do it at a retreat since they would not be allowed to fly until after it was renamed and put back online.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Notice to Airmen
Date:	1/11/2023 3:34:16 PM

Someone else who noticed they changed the name, lol.

In another life, as an Air Force Captain working on the Air Staff, one of my responsibilities was the AF weather system, which included the Air Force Central NOTAM Facility located at Carswell AFB, Texas.  I had occasion to visit the facility once and was amazed at the methodology used to produce the NOTAMs that went out to the Air Force and everyone else.  In a single room was a collection of teletype and fax machines (this was roughly 1977-78) connected to weather and air traffic control facilities literally around the world.  Inside that facility was a dedicated and skilled staff who monitored all incoming messages, decided what was important or not already reported, and used the resultant snippets of germane information to composed NOTAMs which were then transmitted worldwide.  Since most of the comm channels were teletype, the output method was a continuous feed of paper coming out of the teletype machines.  The operators would tear off the printed output, go over to a large table, and scroll through the messages, using a large paper cutter to collect what was needed and feed the rest into a large trash can under the cutter.  My observation from that operation, other than awe at the skill and knowledge of those operators, was that if you took away their paper cutter they probably couldn't do their mission.

I pray that in the past 45 yers they have updated and upgraded their system.  It is now obvious to the rest of the country how important that system is.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Notice to Airmen
Date:	1/11/2023 4:20:28 PM (updated 1/11/2023 4:25:07 PM)

Yeah, when I heard it this morning I did a double take and a WTF?!?  when I googled notice to airmen earlier today to wonder if during my flight training(late 80's) my instructor/study material/tests were all wrong - when I found out they renamed it recently due to LBGBTQRSFKHEADSTSLKJHIUYWER?+ I was thinking thank God they got around to the important stuff!

Maybe they should make "glitches" illegal - that will stop it!!

Sadly if they still had their paper cutter etc. the system would not have went down - or at least would have been back online quciker, but it was probably running on a gerbil powered  mainrframe computer built in the 50s/60s and no one can understand COBOL anymore, let alone figure out the power switch ( or the gerbil died since the new named rules did not spell out that they needed to give it food and water )

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Notice to Airmen
Date:	1/12/2023 8:08:45 AM

I can tell you as a private pilot that the NOTAM system has been a train wreck for quite a while.  We all use the same system, private pilots to airline crews.  And for the airlines or any commercial operation like charter (Part 135) you cannot fly without them.  They provide critical information about the departure/arrival airport, weather, outages of navigations systems, etc. 

Having said that, I can never recall a time when the whole system went down but it has probably happened and I just wasn't flying then.  But going down in the middle of the night is one thing, early morning is a nightmare.